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v WATER HEATING DEVICE FOR STOVES AND RANGES. NO. 357,874. Patented Feb. 15, 1887 N. VETERS. PhowLKI-oguphor. Wnhinmn. n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT J. STIRRAT, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ROBERT G. STIRRAT, OF SAME PLACE.

WATEFhHEATING DEVICE FOR STOVES AND RANGES.

VSQPECIPICATIOBT forming part of Letters Patent N0. 357,874, dated February 15, 1887.

Application tiled October 23, 1883. Serial No. 109,765.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT J. STIRRAT, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Water-Heating Devices forStoves and Ranges, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

r0 My invention relates to those water-heating devices in which the water to be heated is caused to pass through the long center and a water-back.

My improvement consists in features of constructiou hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a transverse section of a stove atl 1, Fig. 3, showing acombined long center and water-back. Fig. 2 is a section at 2 2,

Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a part top View of a cooking-stove.

A is the top,and B the sideplates of a stove. O is the long center, and D the short centers. E is the fire-back plate.

:5 The long center 0 is cast with a projection having a water-passage through it almost from end to end, as shown at G. The under side of the long center is tapped-at (land the section F of the water-pipe screwed therein. This section connects with the horizontal part F and vertical section F of the induction-pipe F, which extends in front of the fire-back E and out through thewallof the stove or range, and connects with the lower part of a waterheating tank or other source of supply. The

eduction-pipe G is screwed into the long cen- (No model.)

ter at C and carries the water heated therein to the hot-water tank or other place. The arrangement is such that there will be a constant flow of water through the passage 0', thus 0 causing the heating of the water and limiting the temperature of the long center.

It will be seen that the construction I have shown provides a combined long center and water-back.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination, with theremovable top plate of a cooking-stove having a chamber therein, of an exitpipe leading from said chamber at one end of the plate and an inlet- 0 pipe running parallel to the exit-pipe, extending to the other end of the plate and communicating with the chamber, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the removable top plate of a cooking-stove having a chamber therein, of an exit-pipe leading from said chamber at one end of the plate and an inlet pipe communicating with the chamber at the other end of the plate and extending downward horizontally and upward beneath the plate, and then parallel to the exit-pipe, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with a cooking stove or range, of a hollow long center plate, sup- 65 ply-pipe F, formed with horizontal section F, and vertical sections F F, and the eduction pipe G, substantially as described.

' ROBERT J. STIRRAT.

W1 tnesses SAML. KNIGHT, GEO. H. KNIGHT. 

